THE MEANING OF HAPPINESS
(1953)
Signed second edition of Watts's classic philosophical text in the scarce original dust jacket.
BCB New Arrivals
LSD LUDICROUS SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT: A Psychedelic Happening Construction Kit
1966
Original and complete set of this cult '60s "game" kit: a psychedelic puzzle with no rules and no solution.
THE LOVE GENERATION: A Study of Sex Among the Hippies
(1967)
Rare and thrilling psychedelic hippie exposé for the suburban sleaze paperback reader.
DESOLATION ANGELS
(1965)
First edition of this sequel of sorts to DHARMA BUMS, in which Kerouac weaves Buddhist themes through memoir.
T.O.P.
1970
Scarce and beautifully-produced collection of concrete and visual poetry.
CHICAGO REVIEW: Summer 1958 Volume 12 Number 2
1958
Zen issue of the Chicago review, featuring contributers Kerouac (with an excerpt from THE DHARMA BUMS), Watts, Beckett, Gary Snyder, D.T. Suzuki, Franz Kline, George Seferis, and several others.
MEXICO CITY BLUES (242 CHORUSES)
(1959)
Third printing of Kerouac's long poem in 242 stanzas.
MAGGIE CASSIDY
(1959)
Paperback original of Kerouac on teen passion and despair.
ON THE ROAD
1957
Second printing of Kerouac's novel, a cultural landmark and a defining work of the Beat Generation.
10 TIMES A POEM
1967
Signed first printing of these poems, "collected at random" by the Beat poet.
THE PARIS REVIEW
1968
Plimpton-era issue of the Paris Review, with Jack Kerouac interviewed by Ted Berrigan for The Art of Fiction LXI.
NOVA EXPRESS
(1964)
First printing of the third novel in Burroughs's Nova Trilogy.
BIG TABLE 1, Spring 1959
1959
Founded after the suppression of the Chicago Review in late 1958, largely due to its inclusion of excerpts from NAKED LUNCH, and reprinting those controversial contents in their entirety.
THE SUBTERRANEANS
(1958)
Scarce second printing of Kerouac's novella recounting his relationship with Alene Lee, who picked him up for his "beautiful" profile and walked away from him in her own good time.
KEROUAC'S LAST WORD: Jack Kerouac in Escapade
1986
Limited edition of Clark's essay, with a supplement of three articles by Jack Kerouac.
KEROUAC: A Biography
(1973)
Signed second printing of the essential Kerouac biography.
KEROUAC WEST COAST: A Bohemian Pilot Detailed Navigational Instructions
1976
Brief remembrance of Jack Kerouac, by a friend who appeared as a character in THE DHARMA BUMS and DESOLATION ANGELS.
KEROUAC: Visions of Lowell
(1993)
Illustrated guide to the Lowell of Kerouac's youth and literature, signed by the author and introduced by Ginsberg.
DR. SAX
(1959)
Third printing of Kerouac's fantastic, drug-tinged dream-autobiography.
GO
1977
Scarce reprint edition of the first novel of the Beat Generation.
SULLA STRADA
(2000)
Italian translation of Kerouac's ON THE ROAD.
THE BEAT BOOK: Poems and Fiction from the Beat Generation
1996
Wide-ranging Beat anthology, with a foreword by Allen Ginsberg.
JACK KEROUAC: A Chicken-Essay
(1975)
Second printing of this argument for the persistent cultural influence of Quebec on Jack Kerouac.
WHAT IS THE CITY?
2007
Warmly inscribed copy of Marion's poetry collection.
AVENTURES DU ROI PAUSOLE
(1932)
Mildly erotic Louÿsian literary fantasia with mildly erotic illustrations, by the respective masters of those arts.
